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Soon after I arrived at SRC, I was approached by some people at WRL (Digital’s Western Research Laboratory) who were building a multiprocessor computer. They wanted to avoid having to add synchronization instructions, so they wanted to know how efficiently mutual exclusion could be implemented with just read and write instructions. They figured that, with […]